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Weak in our solitude

“People protest for immigration reform for DACA recipients and a new Dream Act in Los Angeles on Monday. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters)” Via the Washington Post.

The quotable Elizabeth Bruenig on how Donald Trump’s brand of nationalism makes us a nation of isolates…

What Trump offered as an answer to the aching aloneness of Americans was nationalism, the exchange of an imagined community for actual ones, the promise of a mystic bond with people you’ll never meet even while the ones you know and love are deported, abandoned, dying. It was supposed to bring us together, supposed to make us strong. But his policies stand to leave us more alone than we’ve ever been, and in our solitude, weak.